Hi, thanks to all of you who have sent me helpful information. I'm diving into the secrets of unicode.
It seems the crucial point was, that seemingly during the installation of the programming environment eric the file *** /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/sitecustomize.py *** has been modified. I found that file mentioned in the excellent online book 'Diving into python' Thanks again + happy pythoning Hellmut -- Dr. Hellmut Weber [EMAIL PROTECTED] Degenfeldstraße 2 tel +49-89-3081172 D-80803 München-Schwabing mobil +49-172-8450321 please: No DOCs, no PPTs. why: tinyurl.com/cbgq -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list